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I tend to write songs critiquing myself. The best way for me to deal with stuff is to write a song about it... That's not to say all my songs are like that.

I just write songs whenever I feel like it, whenever they come to me.

I usually don't write songs by people calling me and saying, 'Write a song about this.' Usually I'm just going with what I want to write, so you never know.

Not to take anything away from artists who don't write their own songs, but it's always been important to me to make sure it's my story.

Sometimes when I write songs, I don't know what they're about, and it just suddenly comes to me.

I write songs about stuff that I can't really get past personally - and then I write a song about it and I feel better.

I like writing songs - I keep saying that one day I'll do something with them, but I haven't yet.

I'm just writing songs about how I feel or about how people I know feel.

Even when I don't think I'm writing, I'm writing. There's some part of my brain geared toward making songs up, and I know it's collecting things and I know when I get a moment to be by myself, that's when they come out.